Overview
Kelly Beskin is an attorney in Stoel Rives’ Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources group, with a focus on environmental and natural resources-related litigation and regulatory compliance counseling. She advises and advocates for clients across multiple industries, including natural resource production, commercial development, and manufacturing.
Before joining Stoel Rives, Kelly was a judicial extern to the Honorable Dennis M. Cota of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and a legal intern at the California Energy Commission, Chief Counsel’s Office.
Kelly leverages her background in science to provide effective solutions to complex client issues.
Education
University of California, Davis School of Law, J.D., 2021; Top 5%; Order of the Coif; UC Davis Law Review; Dean’s Merit Scholarship; King Hall Academic Excellence Scholarship
Texas A&M University, M.S., Entomology, 2016
University of Georgia, B.S., Environmental Sciences/Entomology, 2013
Admissions
California
United States District Courts for the districts of Eastern and Northern California
Languages
- Spanish
Insights
Insights & Presentations
- Author, “No Pause for Climate Disclosures: Court Denies Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against California’s SB 253 and SB 261,” Stoel Rives Environmental Law blog, August 18, 2025
- Co-author, “EPA Designates PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances Under CERCLA,” Stoel Rives LLP, April 23, 2024
- “Prop 65 Updates: Chrome VI in leather, BPA in socks, new short form warning labels,” Footwear Distributors and Retailers Association (FDRA) Footwear Product Safety Digital Conference, April 7, 2022
- Co-author, “9th Circuit Ruling Halts Prop 65 Acrylamide Lawsuits, Again,” The Recorder, Law.com, March 31, 2022
- Co-author, Rural California Suffers a Painful Shortage of Lawyers (July 27, 2020). Daily Journal (California), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3677582
- Co-author, A Survey of Policy Responses to the Rural Attorney Shortage in the United States (May 24, 2021). Working Paper/Chapter for International Collection on Rural Access to Justice (Daniel Newman and Faith Gordon, eds., forthcoming, Hart Publishing 2022), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3830797
Publications
Recognition
- Witkin Award Recipient (highest class grade) in Civil Procedure, Contracts, Torts, Constitutional Law I, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Evidence, Land Use Planning, and Public Lands Law
Affiliations
Professional
- Environmental Law Certificate
- Environmental Law Society, former Symposium Committee Co-Chair